Computational approaches for organic semiconductors: from chemical and physical understanding to predicting new materials

V Bhat, CP Callaway, C Risko - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
While a complete understanding of organic semiconductor (OSC) design principles remains
elusive, computational methods─ ranging from techniques based in classical and quantum …

Organic compounds for solid state luminescence enhancement/aggregation induced emission: a theoretical perspective

M Turelli, I Ciofini, Q Wang, A Ottochian… - Physical Chemistry …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Organic luminophores displaying one or more forms of luminescence enhancement in solid
state are extremely promising for the development and performance optimization of …

Excited state properties of point defects in semiconductors and insulators investigated with time-dependent density functional theory

Y Jin, VW Yu, M Govoni, AC Xu… - Journal of Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
We present a formulation of spin-conserving and spin-flip hybrid time-dependent density
functional theory (TDDFT), including the calculation of analytical forces, which allows for …

Towards nanotube-based sensors for discrimination of drug molecules

LA Algharagholy, VM García-Suárez… - Physical Chemistry …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
The proper detection of drug molecules is key for applications that have an impact in several
fields, ranging from medical treatments to industrial applications. In case of illegal drugs …

Modeling the Electronic and Optical Properties of Lead-Based Perovskite Materials: Insights from Density Functional Theory and Electrostatic Embedding

J Su, D Luise, I Ciofini, F Labat - The Journal of Physical Chemistry …, 2023 - ACS Publications
We present an investigation of the geometric, electronic, and optical properties of various
bulk MAPbX3 (X= Cl, Br, and I) perovskite systems in different phases and of different …

Illuminating milling mechanochemistry by tandem real-time fluorescence emission and Raman spectroscopy monitoring

PA Julien, M Arhangelskis, LS Germann, M Etter… - Chemical …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
In pursuit of accessible and interpretable methods for direct and real-time observation of
mechanochemical reactions, we demonstrate a tandem spectroscopic method for monitoring …

Modeling of High-Harmonic Generation in the C60 Fullerene Using Ab Initio, DFT-Based, and Semiempirical Methods

AP Woźniak, R Moszynski - The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2024 - ACS Publications
We report calculations of the high-harmonic generation spectra of the C60 fullerene
molecule carried out by employing a diverse set of real-time time-dependent quantum …

Theoretical investigation of polymorph-and coformer-dependent photoluminescence in molecular crystals

X Feng, AD Becke, ER Johnson - CrystEngComm, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Polymorph-and coformer-dependent photoluminescence (PL) are among the variety of
novel solid-state PL phenomena recently observed in many molecular crystals. They are of …

An efficient implementation of analytical nuclear gradients for linear-response time-dependent density functional theory in the plane wave basis

J Liu, W Hu, J Yang - Electronic Structure, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We present an efficient implementation of the analytical nuclear gradient of linear-response
time-dependent density functional theory (LR-TDDFT) with the frozen core approximation …

Computational modeling of piezochromism in molecular crystals

X Feng, AD Becke, ER Johnson - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Piezochromic materials, whose luminescence responds to external pressure, have recently
garnered much experimental attention. Computational modeling of piezochromism is of high …